Hi All, I am not up-to-date on Macs, so forgive me this ignorant snippet. The RAM is maxed out. having a trillemma here trying to find a good use for the subj: upgrade and use a Mac OS or not to upgrade and use a Linux. ...or to try to upgrade and try use a Linux :) SuSE 7.1 runs fine on this machine, NetBSD or any other BSD is not portable at the moment due to 601 chip. I ran the Linux distro for a while using the box mostly as a backup ftp intranet server, then it came to a point that the hdds needed to be upgraded. So, i bought that prohibitively expensive luxury Sonnet ATA66 card and 2 60 GB drives. Problem: SuSE doesn't see any of the above. For the time being I put Mac OS 9.1 back on the box, installed jServer and it serves, not as easily as Linux, of course. Which brings me to "Boy, the OS is still such a pleasure to use! May be I just try upgrade the old buddy somehow?" the motivation is mostly fun activity, so economical reasons are not primary in this case. For Linux, I guess, I am stuck with prospects of buying a couple of Seagate ST318417N drives. There were good deals here and there, but with the price of cables and adapter taken into account the benefit/performance/reliability to headache ratio is too low. Those Seagates are the only reliable narrow drives still in production I am told. Then, if I go berserk and upgrade the chip, will any other OS work? I understand that the Crescendo/7200 cards don't even support OS 9.1 yet, let alone anything else outside of Mac world. On the Sonnet cards: any real difference between G3/G4 512/1024 cache? Since the biggest bottleneck is the PCI slot, hdd transfer rate could be more relevant? btw, I haven't noticed any speed benefit from ATA66 and IDE drives. the capacity is up and noise is down, and this is pleasant. Just can't throw this clunker away, I guess. TIA, Yuri. Vancouver, WA/USA P.S. I gave the jServer 64 MB of RAM and so far with a light use it had to be rebooted only once per week. The LAN has 29 nodes: Win, Solaris, Mac OS spread. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
